ArielMT Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 2 hours ago, Endless/Nameless said: Somebody's been spamming FAF all day with ads for a fake ID service. So far he has 7 separate threads across several subforms. He has been posting these for 10 hours; a report was supposedly filed 5 hours ago. He is still posting. They have such great moderation Time to move BWAHAHAHAHAH! Sorry, kickbanning spammers was a highlight of my FAF admin tenure. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clove Darkwave Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeke Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 19 minutes ago, ArielMT said: BWAHAHAHAHAH! Sorry, kickbanning spammers was a highlight of my FAF admin tenure. I remember them fondy...black magic bots, tantric sex bots from Bangladesh, gucci bots... I even banned a horde of Bitcoin bots on FAF 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlynnCoyote Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 I met this exact bot on HeresyOnline. Glad to see he's doing well after I IP blocked his face. ;w; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 While we slept, the invasion of the spambots began in earnest, and still no one who can do anything about it has logged in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vae Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 I find it fitting that FAF2.0 is being infected by scams and spambots, when they willingly subjected their users to malware-laden, sketchy as fuck advertising on the mainsite. Call it karma. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 (edited) Even better, it's quarter to Noon Eastern on Monday as I write, and not one of the staffers who could do anything about it has even logged in since the wee hours of Friday morning. Ever since coming back online, the entirety of staff has taken every weekend off from even checking up on the forums, let alone maintaining and moderating them. Edit: Except for everyone's favorite admin who loves to "chase v rocket" and the curiously similar moderator-dragon, both of whom have their forum profiles set off-limits to all but friends despite being presumably transparent and importantly accessible members of staff. Naturally, no one can tell if they've ever logged in, but moderator-dragon's zero counts across the board suggests not. Edited March 14, 2016 by ArielMT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willow Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 I'm not the least bit surprised given that there were at least 12 bots on the site when I last went there and the site itself gives my computer a heart attack every time I log on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamedog Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Mods haven't visited that site in 3 days imagine how easy it would be to spam nasty shit rotten.com and motherless goooooo haha jk Let them be incompetent and kill the site that way 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutekh_the_Steak Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Oh wow this is fantastic. All the spambot threads are still up hours later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CETME Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Oh hey I can sign in with my old account. I'm assuming that all the people at the new FAF are a bunch of over sensitive, hug-boxers so I may go on a trolling spree there. Oh so many spambots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Capture 'em now, because I couldn't wait another 20 hours to say something. BTW, I'm not exaggerating about the length of time. Not to single anyone out, but this timestamp (time zone GMT) is the most recent of staff check-ins I could find. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deskai Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 at least the old FAF we kept it clean and to the point bots didnt show up as much... but then again being bought by IMVU is how things gonna be.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 They fired me (and rightly so, just to be clear) for consistently going as long between check-ins as the entire staff has now gone: 83 hours and counting, still no mods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deskai Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 27 minutes ago, ArielMT said: They fired me (and rightly so, just to be clear) for consistently going as long between check-ins as the entire staff has now gone: 83 hours and counting, still no mods. are there like conventions goin' on or something...I mean even the mods of FAF visited the site rather off and on even when you guys went conventioning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastryOfApathy Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 (edited) 30 minutes ago, ArielMT said: They fired me (and rightly so, just to be clear) for consistently going as long between check-ins as the entire staff has now gone: 83 hours and counting, still no mods. Well you're not Faganeer's personal fuck buddy so you don't get any leniency. Maybe if you fucked more dogs that would have changed hmm? Edited March 14, 2016 by PastryOfApathy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willow Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Just now, Deskai said: are there like conventions goin' on or something...I mean even the mods of FAF visited the site rather off and on even when you guys went conventioning. I think there was one this past weekend, but I doubt every single staff member went to Texas Furry Fiesta.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeke Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 4 minutes ago, Deskai said: are there like conventions goin' on or something...I mean even the mods of FAF visited the site rather off and on even when you guys went conventioning. I mostly checked FAF on my tablet when I could, and on my phone when I was doing nothing else. I think I also checked it between breaks of having sex too. I have no life. 3 hours ago, BlitzCo said: Oh hey I can sign in with my old account. I'm assuming that all the people at the new FAF are a bunch of over sensitive, hug-boxers so I may go on a trolling spree there. Oh so many spambots A few people are, I wouldn't say all of them. I recognize a few people that left after making 1 thread, and made another thread an hour later announcing their departure due to trolls, people not agreeing with them, or no one likes them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrit Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 great FAF is offically worst then sofurry maybe even inkbunny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clove Darkwave Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Just now, Ikrit said: great FAF is offically worst then sofurry maybe even inkbunny Whoa now that's some pretty small shoes to fill. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeke Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 1 minute ago, Ikrit said: great FAF is offically worst then sofurry maybe even inkbunny Nah, I wouldn't exaggerate that far. Compared to the two mentioned, FAF is pretty much a dead dog resurrected from the grave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrishaCat Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 I find FAF having a new community with a few familiar faces somewhat refreshing, personally. Its a shame the mods aren't as active as they need to be there though. Bots are annoying and for some reason REALLY like to target FAF. I wonder how long it'll be before this place starts getting bots. 3 hours ago, ArielMT said: They fired me (and rightly so, just to be clear) for consistently going as long between check-ins as the entire staff has now gone: 83 hours and counting, still no mods. >implying Dragoneer understands the concept of consistency Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clove Darkwave Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 6 minutes ago, Battlechili said: . I wonder how long it'll be before this place starts getting bots. We are always watching. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 3 minutes ago, Battlechili said: >implying Dragoneer understands the concept of consistency >highlighting the hypocrisy of the standard enforced and the standard practiced by him and his closest staff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hikaru Okami Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 6 hours ago, ArielMT said: Capture 'em now, because I couldn't wait another 20 hours to say something. BTW, I'm not exaggerating about the length of time. Not to single anyone out, but this timestamp (time zone GMT) is the most recent of staff check-ins I could find. Probably saw all of the bots and thought "nope" and never returned. I don't blame them. FAF is going to hugbox hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastryOfApathy Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 (edited) 31 minutes ago, Battlechili said: I wonder how long it'll be before this place starts getting bots. We're not noteworthy enough for the Chinese slave laborers who make these things to notice us. Ultimately we're just a giant circlejerk hidden away in a dark corner that no one except us gives two shits about so we're safe from just about everything but ourselves. That said would anyone like to buy some patented herbal male enhancement pills? Just follow this link for amazing deals! ONLY $19.99!!! Edited March 15, 2016 by PastryOfApathy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Lee Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 19 hours ago, Zeke said: I even banned a horde of Bitcoin bots on FAF Are you sure those were bots or just multiple Rassah accounts? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastryOfApathy Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 (edited) 1 minute ago, Crazy Lee said: Are you sure those were bots or just multiple Rassah accounts? Wait Rassah isn't a bitcoin bot? Edited March 15, 2016 by PastryOfApathy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeke Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 28 minutes ago, Crazy Lee said: Are you sure those were bots or just multiple Rassah accounts? Unless Rassah lives in China... Xenoforo allows you to make additional security prompts to prevent bots or Chnese spammers from creating accounts. the fact that there are spammers shows that there's a level of incompetence with the software, or they do not give a fuck. To which I say Know these seven tricks to learn how to speak any language for free!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willow Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 23 minutes ago, Zeke said: Unless Rassah lives in China... Xenoforo allows you to make additional security prompts to prevent bots or Chnese spammers from creating accounts. the fact that there are spammers shows that there's a level of incompetence with the software, or they do not give a fuck. To which I say Know these seven tricks to learn how to speak any language for free!!!! I'm inclined to say the latter although it could potentially be both. it really does look like they kind of slapped some stuff together with little thought to how it's actually gonna function. also currently the number of bots outweighs the number of users and that's funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeke Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 48 minutes ago, willow said: I'm inclined to say the latter although it could potentially be both. it really does look like they kind of slapped some stuff together with little thought to how it's actually gonna function. also currently the number of bots outweighs the number of users and that's funny FAF 1.0 had about 500 bots registering a day with about 25% of them posting as soon as they created an account. banning all those bots... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willow Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Just now, Zeke said: FAF 1.0 had about 500 bots registering a day with about 25% of them posting as soon as they created an account. banning all those bots... that's true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 1 hour ago, willow said: I'm inclined to say the latter although it could potentially be both. it really does look like they kind of slapped some stuff together with little thought to how it's actually gonna function. also currently the number of bots outweighs the number of users and that's funny Those are recognized bots, though, mainly search engine spiders, but all of which use user-agent strings announcing themselves as bots. Those aren't spammer bots, which pretend to be regular users. That noted, more spiders than users online is still a laughably bad statistic. :3c Also, 91 hours (five hours shy of four whole days) without a single mod checking in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willow Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 4 minutes ago, ArielMT said: Those are recognized bots, though, mainly search engine spiders, but all of which use user-agent strings announcing themselves as bots. Those aren't spammer bots, which pretend to be regular users. That noted, more spiders than users online is still a laughably bad statistic. :3c Also, 91 hours (five hours shy of four whole days) without a single mod checking in. see I wasn't sure what they were, only that they weren't actual users Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endless/Nameless Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 The mighty Dragoneer himself finally showed up. I quote: Quote "The spammers were wiped. If/when you see threads with that report it, and we can get it knocked out!" Oh wow, it's so simple!! Just file a report!!! WHY DIDNT WE THINK OF THAT BEFORE!!!!! IT'S ALL OUR FAULT!!!!!!! :V :V :V 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikazuki Marazhu Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 2 hours ago, Endless/Nameless said: The mighty Dragoneer himself finally showed up. I quote: Oh wow, it's so simple!! Just file a report!!! WHY DIDNT WE THINK OF THAT BEFORE!!!!! IT'S ALL OUR FAULT!!!!!!! :V :V :V That's dragoneer we all know and love. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Way late, but just like FA. Dragoneer himself broke the streak at 95 hours, and probably by accident. Completely ignoring the severity of mod absence, he said, "The spammers were wiped. If/when you see threads with that report it, and we can get it knocked out!" [emphasis mine] Unrelated, the only way I could disable the "allow Flash Player plugin?" bar from randomly pushing pages down every single time I load any new-FAF page (because XenForo needs Flash applets running as common buttons for who-knows-why) is to disable JavaScript across all of FA. When you try to "like" a post with JavaScript disabled, you get asked a stupid question no one gets asked when JavaScript is enabled: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazerMaster5 Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 51 minutes ago, ArielMT said: Way late, but just like FA. Dragoneer himself broke the streak at 95 hours, and probably by accident. Completely ignoring the severity of mod absence, he said, "The spammers were wiped. If/when you see threads with that report it, and we can get it knocked out!" [emphasis mine] Unrelated, the only way I could disable the "allow Flash Player plugin?" bar from randomly pushing pages down every single time I load any new-FAF page (because XenForo needs Flash applets running as common buttons for who-knows-why) is to disable JavaScript across all of FA. When you try to "like" a post with JavaScript disabled, you get asked a stupid question no one gets asked when JavaScript is enabled: But do you want to like this post? After all, likes are serious business. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 4 minutes ago, LazerMaster5 said: But do you want to like this post? After all, likes are serious business. Where's the no button? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazerMaster5 Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Just now, ArielMT said: Where's the no button? That is coming in the next update, approximately six months from now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenrirDarkWolf Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 1 hour ago, LazerMaster5 said: That is coming in the next update, approximately six months from now. More like 6 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endless/Nameless Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 (edited) nice EDIT: it's averaging 30 threads per hour. Edited March 22, 2016 by Endless/Nameless 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangefox32000 Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 5 hours ago, Endless/Nameless said: nice EDIT: it's averaging 30 threads per hour. Someone in Korea sure ain't fond of us furfags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxon Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 I am fed up with this shit. The anonymous moderator logs on in order to remove all commission threads asking for NSFW content, but evidently cannot be faffed to confront spam. ._. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 (edited) Apparently they did just a few minutes ago. They changed the captcha to one that's probably easier to defeat (Funcaptcha), and they said they added a spam list. To their credit, the spam list looks like a good one. Edit: https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/forum-spammers.1527343/ None of this is helped by their staffing issue, however. They still have a bunch of inactive admins/mods there, along with two exceptionally unprofessional profile configurations. Asia Neko, Main Site AUP Admin: No record of last visit, and rarely posts. He Who Must Not Be Named, Director of Operations: Profile is set to friends-only. Signed-in users are greeted with an error message, seems only to be active whenever anyone mentions the meaning he once assigned to his own chosen name. Dragoneer, Administrator: Surprisingly active since the "mods are Rip Van Winkle, post spam!" stint. Moderator-Dragon, Forum Moderator: Profile is set to friends-only. Signed-in users are greeted with an error message. Never posted, never received a like, never received a trophy point. Trophy points seem to be awarded on first login. Highly inactive, probably so inactive as to have never once logged in. Moderator-Gazelle, Forum Moderator: The lone active CSR grunt who, like virtually all low-level mods throughout FAF's history, has the most excellent performance record of all current staff. net-cat, Infernal Kitty: Has gone more than 400 days since the last login and has gone so deliberately inactive that his forum signature is, "I don't use FAF anymore." quoting_mungo, Administrator: Less active than Dragoneer, much less active than Moderator-Gazelle, but still reasonably active enough. Sciggles, Administrator: Has gone over seven months without logging in and over 10 without posting, has never logged in to the new FAF. SSJ3Mewtwo, Administrator: Checks in frequently enough. yak, Administrator: Checks in frequently enough. Of these 10 active staffers, only five are actually active and presentable: Dragoneer, Moderator-Gazelle, quoting_mungo, SSJ3Mewtwo, and yak. If they had any single-standard consistency at the top, the other five would be demoted for going inactive. Edited March 22, 2016 by ArielMT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endless/Nameless Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 1 hour ago, ArielMT said: [she said lotsa stuff here] Aside from Dragoneer and Gazelle, I don't believe I've yet seen any of the other staff do anything more than simply be logged in. It's quite enjoyable to watch, but I feel bad for those who are actually trying to have a good time there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deskai Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 this is the fate of the new FAF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willow Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 8 hours ago, Saxon said: I am fed up with this shit. The anonymous moderator logs on in order to remove all commission threads asking for NSFW content, but evidently cannot be faffed to confront spam. ._. maybe they can't do anything about the spam..or they don't know how Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deskai Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 6 minutes ago, willow said: maybe they can't do anything about the spam..or they don't know how cause the people who COULD do it are no longer with em :V 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willow Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Just now, Deskai said: cause the people who COULD do it are no longer with em :V I smell a conspiracy theory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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